Daily Archive: January 18, 2010

Chris Dierkes

/// January 18, 2010

A Very Merry Un-Posting to You

Br. Erik writes an interesting riposte to Br. Poulos re: The Tea Partiers. Erik’s post is here, James’ here. Given that James is writing about the Tea Partiers, I think it’s fair to now...

Erik Kain

/// January 18, 2010

Of tea parties and tyranny

There are many things wrong with what James is trying to say in this post. I will try to tackle a few of them. The meat of the post, which is also the part...

Chris Dierkes

/// January 18, 2010

Meta-Narrating: The Year in Review for President Obama

Paul Krugman’s op-ed (for today) begins: Lately many people have been second-guessing the Obama administration’s political strategy. The conventional wisdom seems to be that President Obama tried to do too much — in particular,...

Dave

/// January 18, 2010

Technicalities

John Carney has some interesting commentary on the first day of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission hearings. He writes: A structured credit product—whether its as simple as a mortgage backed security or a complex...

Dave

/// January 18, 2010

Is inflation in our future?

Greg Mankiw says that it’s not a sure thing, despite the large deficits and rapid growth in our money supply.

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Bernie Sanders accepts Joe Rogan’s endorsement

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Bernie Sanders accepts Joe Rogan’s endorsement

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From Bernie Sanders on Twitter:

“I think I'll probably vote for Bernie... He’s been insanely consistent his entire life. He’s basically been saying the same thing, been for the same thing his whole life. And that in and of itself is a very powerful structure to operate from.” -Joe Rogan pic.twitter.com/fuQP0KwGGI
— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) January 23, 2020

(Featured image is "Riot police in wait mode" by trexcali . Used under creative commons license.)

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Boris Johnson announces that the Withdrawal Agreement has received Royal Assent

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Boris Johnson announces that the Withdrawal Agreement has received Royal Assent

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From Twitter:

The Withdrawal Agreement has received Royal Assent and is now law. We will leave the EU on January 31st 🇬🇧
— Boris Johnson (@BorisJohnson) January 23, 2020

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Grist for the Moral Mill

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Grist for the Moral Mill

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From here (courtesy of Hanley):

Rather, I want to explore two ideas that are ubiquitous among the morally (self) righteous, of whatever stripe, and which may somewhat explain why they behave so awfully so often.
The first is that the rightness of one’s cause justifies and even ennobles terrible behavior on one’s own part.
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The second – and it is intimately related to and entwined with the first – is that those whom the (self) righteous believe are Bad People deserve neither quarter nor pity. The idea isn’t just that The Bad deserve what they get, a kind of melancholic observation of what comes of bad Karma, but that we should put the boot in (especially when they are down) and should be brutal in doing it…and pitiless afterwards.

Extending grace only to those you like is not how grace works.

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From the Daily Mail: Mexico and Colombia may have their first coronavirus cases

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From the Daily Mail: Mexico and Colombia may have their first coronavirus cases

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From the Daily Mail:

Mexico and Colombia may have their first coronavirus cases as the contagious illness that has killed 17 spreads from China to at least 531 people around the world

Mexican and Colombian officials are investigating their countriess first possible case of the new coronavirus
In Mexico, the patients is on the northern border state of Tamaulipa, which borders Texas
The Colombian case concerns a 19-year-old Chinese citizen, who traveled to Bogotá from Turkey
As of Wednesday, 531 worldwide have caught the viral illness and 17 have died
Cases have been confirmed in Thailand, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and the US, which reported its first patient, a man in his 30s in Washington state, on Tuesday
One person in Australia is reportedly in isolation and may have the virus

(Featured image is coronavirus, from the Science Photo Library.)

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Terry Jones, Founding Monty Python Member, Passes at Age 77

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Terry Jones, Founding Monty Python Member, Passes at Age 77

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From the BBC:

Monty Python star Terry Jones has died at the age of 77, four years after being diagnosed with dementia.
A statement from his family said: "We have all lost a kind, funny, warm, creative and truly loving man."

(Featured image is Terry Jones, taken by Myung Jung Kim/PA Wire URN:49759970 (Press Association via AP Images)).

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